MySQL and stored procedures - last inserted identity

As we understand it stored procedures are not available in MySQL until version 5.

However version 5 is still alpha.

Has anyone been running version 5 and what were the results?

Also we keep getting the error:

ERROR [HY000] [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-5.0.0-alpha-max-debug]SELECT in a stored procedure must have INTO

The procedure looks like :

CREATE procedure sprtest()
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM databasename.mytable
END

We get the same error running from MySQL Query Browser


Ideally what we are trying to eventually do is to just insert a record and return the id of the record that was just inserted to use in other inserts/updates/methods/etc in the web page.


We also thought about just doing the equivalent of this in MS SQL :

INSERT INTO mytable (field1, field2) VALUES('test', 99); SELECT @@Identity

But this gives the following error in MySQL :

ERROR [42000] [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-5.0.0-alpha-max-debug]You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '; SELECT @@Identity' at line 1


I know that in MySQL it is not @@Identity, but is Last_Insert_ID(), but it really makes no difference.  Even if I do the following :

INSERT INTO mytable (field1, field2) VALUES('test', 99); SELECT * FROM mytable

I get the error


ERROR [42000] [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-5.0.0-alpha-max-debug]You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '; SELECT * FROM mytable' at line 1



Any ideas on how to do something so simple as getting the last inserted value - whether via stored procedure - or simply a two-part command?

Thanks.